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It is generally recognised that in the industrial and post-industrial world, traditional dialects, associated largely with non-urban areas and traditional lifestyles, are being ‘swamped’ by the influence of (in no particular order) the written (and spoken) standard language of the polity, colloquial and non-standard varieties (with a broad geographical distribution), and socially and regionally marked varieties which exhibit mainly phonological differences from their neighbours and subsume previously largely discrete traditional dialects into a larger whole. Often, this process is termed dialect attrition.
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Millar, R.M., Bonnici, L., Barras, W. (2014). Change in the Fisher Dialects of the Scottish East Coast: Peterhead as a Case Study. In: Lawson, R. (eds) Sociolinguistics in Scotland. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034717_12
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